With over 200 days of clear skies annually, coupled with pleasant climes, southern European countries like Greece, Italy, and Spain have become favored summer retreats for Western society over the past century. Verily, in certain locales along the Mediterranean seaboard, amid sandy beaches and buildings with graceful lines, together with a storied history, it resembles a terrestrial paradise. However, in recent years, record-shattering high temperatures, compounded by arid air and robust winds, have transmuted Corfu, Sicily, and Rhodes—Mediterranean attractions that habitually welcome throngs of tourists in summer—into seas of flames. Even sans wildfires, many nations in southern Europe have weathered extreme heatwaves, with thermometer readings in Italy, Spain, Greece, and…